Category: Lizzy Yarnold

• UK’s greatest Winter Olympian ‘won’t pursue celebrity’• Yarnold is not ruling out a tilt at third gold in 2022It took Lizzy Yarnold four years to weave together the myriad threads required to defend her skeleton title. Yet hours after becoming Britai…

• Laura Deas claims bronze after thrilling set of final runs• First time Britain have won three medals in same dayLizzy Yarnold overcame dizzy spells to win a second successive women’s skeleton gold medal and become the first Briton to successfully def…

*Available to UK viewers only. Great Britain’s Lizzy Yarnold set a new track record in the first heat of the skeleton in Pyeongchang. The defending champions set a time of 51.66sec before a second run saw her finish the day in third place, one pla…

• Yarnold recorded a time of 51.66s• She was 0.08s quicker than Jacqueline Loelling of GermanyDefending champion Lizzy Yarnold set a track record to lead after the opening run of the Winter Olympics women’s skeleton in Pyeongchang on Friday.After Dom P…

Skeleton is a winter sport in which competitors hurl themselves head-first down an ice track on a sled resembling a tea tray and back in the news again thanks to the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang. Before the 2014 Games, Barry Glendenning visited the U…

Team GB flagbearer Lizzy Yarnold insists that her intention is to be on the top of the podium, as she bids to become the first Briton to retain a Winter Olympic title. In Sochi 2014 she produced four flawless runs to win Britain’s only gold medal. The …

• British skeleton athlete ‘honoured’ to be chosen for role• 60-strong team will have clothes that protect against -40°C coldLizzy Yarnold insists she will relish the honour of leading Great Britain out at the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics on…

As she aims to become the first Briton to retain a Winter Olympic title, Lizzie Yarnold says she is peaking at the right pointSometimes when Lizzy Yarnold is hurtling down a skeleton track at 85mph her mind wanders ever so slightly and she notices the …

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One of few consolations England could take from their humiliation at the last Cricket World Cup after their premature exit had been confirmed by Bangladesh before the party had really got started was that, when it arrived, their embarrassment had become very much the norm rather than the exception. Ultimately this flaying at the hands of the Adelaide Oval’s supposed whipping boys was not so much an upset as an act of mercy. “England had the wrong team, the wrong style of play and everyone could see it,” tweeted Shane Warne in his withering post-match assessment. “Tonight’s result not a shock.”

World Cup triumph in rugby, Ashes success, golds for Jo Pavey and Lizzy Yarnold – this was a great year for British women

In this strangely directionless time before New Year’s Day when an uneasy ceasefire on food, fizz and football bingeing takes hold it is traditional to ruminate on the passing year – once more, for old times’ sake – before plunging into stupor and failed resolutions. Sport, of course, is no different.

Winter Olympic skeleton gold medallist Lizzy Yarnold has pulled out of the second World Cup event of the season in Calgary this week under medical advice.

The 26-year-old from Kent, who was shortlisted for this year’s BBC Sports Personality of the Year award which went to Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton on Sunday, experienced symptoms of dizziness during her victory at the season opener in Lake Placid on Friday and will not compete in Calgary.

Winter Olympic skeleton gold medallist Lizzy Yarnold has pulled out of the second World Cup event of the season in Calgary this week under medical advice.

The 26-year-old from Kent, who was shortlisted for this year’s BBC Sports Personality of the Year award which went to Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton on Sunday, experienced symptoms of dizziness during her victory at the season opener in Lake Placid on Friday and will not compete in Calgary.

Following her Winter Olympic triumph in the skeleton Yarnold took three months off but now has the World Cup in her sights

Ten months have passed since Lizzy Yarnold performed an act of alchemy on a bob skeleton track in Sochi; transforming steel and ice into a Winter Olympics gold medal. She has not raced since and before she returned to competition on Friday in Lake Placid she predicted the butterflies in her belly would be doing a merry dance.

“I am very nervous,” she says. “It’s a tough course. You have to be able to think very fast and it’s really challenging. Every time I come here, I have to give myself a little pep talk. With my perfectionist mentality I try to do everything right but it’s not always possible.”